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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: ETXTBSY (was: How to find process name in c?)
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Date: 19 Jul 90 01:07:52 GMT
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Try this under 4.1BSD:

	sleep 3600 < /bin/cat &

The next hour nobody can use `cat'...
When checking if a file is executable, the 4.1 kernel returns ETXTBSY if
it is open, even if only for reading.  :-(
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